Hip-hop jack-of-all-trades Black Spade is the force behind local rap collective the Force
By Keegan Hamilton
Vol. 34, No. 37
Poll: 68 Percent of St. Charles Voters Support Smoking Ban
By Chad Garrison
First Violators of Missouri Strip Club Law Arrested for Male Dancers
Ed Martin Video Game: Gobbles Emails, Wastes Tax Dollars
Randy Bryant, Antwon Porter: St. Louis Homicides No. 81, 82; Killed in Shootout Friday
5 Questions with B&W Sensors' John Baine -- The Guy Behind Those Danged Speed Cameras
Brick Rustling Still Plagues St. Louis, Says New York Times
By Nicholas Phillips
Five More Dogfighters Plead Guilty in Southern Illinois
Wainwright, Schumaker Caught Relieving Tension of Long Season
William Upski Wimsatt, Author of Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs, Talks Tea Party and Missouri's Progressive Potential
Bruce Price: Felony Burglary Arrest is Not the Life He Ordered (w/ Classic Mugshot)
UPDATE: Fox News Sues Robin Carnahan Over Campaign Commercial
Odds That Gay Couple Won't Appear on Kiss Cam Set at 25 to 1
Dana Loesch Meets Adam Shriver...Love Does Not Blossom
Hair Ye, Hair Ye: AC St. Louis Wants to Reward Mustache Wearers
Judge Rules to Revoke Lure Nightclub's Liquor License
RFT Parent Company Responds to Child-Prostitution Lawsuit Against Backpage.com
Arson Investigated in Burning of Cahokia Church
Bialczak Brothers Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion Involving Police Towing Scandal
Old Farmer's Almanac Predicts Weather and Best Days for Castration
By Aimee Levitt
Cardinals: Dodging Issue of Gays on Kiss Cam Since 2006
Kansas City Asks Judge to Bar Earnings Tax Measure from Ballot
Don't Believe in God? There's a Billboard For That.
Tyler Greene's Pedro Feliz Blues
By Aaron Schafer
Judge Considering Re-Trial for Girls Gone Wild Suit
Drug Company Caught Bribing Docs with Cardinals Tickets
By Melissa Meinzer
Charles Brown Jr.: Alleged Burglar Greeted with .357 Magnum
Anti-Puppy Mill Prop B Fundraising Goes to the Dogs
By Kase Wickman
Kenneth Wells: Medical Marijuana Toker Won't Face Charges in St. Charles
Dennis Arnold: St. Louis Resident Found Dead in Backyard Pool
Driving Miss Drunky: Anheuser-Busch Will Give Free Taxi Rides This Weekend
Top Ten Signs From the Gateway Arch September Tea Party Rally
By William Melton
Noose Trial: Attorney Recalls Four-Year Fight vs. St. Louis Sheriff's Department
Readers think dogs are tops, illegal immigrants the pits
Zachery Huntsman: Drunk, Texting Driver Crashes Into Home
The Ryan Ludwick Deal in Hindsight
Ass Clown of the Week: Stupid Criminals and Rupert Murdoch
Shocker: Low Scores on Entrance Exams Predict Med School Difficulty
Gerald Carnahan: Murder Trial in St. Louis Hopes to End Cold Case from Ozarks
Rams 14 - Raiders 16: A Tale of Two Black Holes
A Consumer's Perspective: Nordstrom Rack
Missouri Congressional Candidate: Don't Donate to Me
By Sarah Fenske
Even Oprah Must Concede That Franzen Reigns Supreme
Ronald Little: Alleged Child Molester May Have Assaulted Others
Wash. U. Among Nation's Most Dangerous Colleges [Updated]
Casey Brezik: Paranoid Schizophrenic Intended to Kill Gov. Jay Nixon
Rupert Murdoch: Ass Clown of the Week
Richmond Heights Wants to Become "Tourist Destination" -- by Taxing the Hell Out of Tourists
Leaf-Peeping in the Lou!
Nordstrom Rack: Death Knell for Area Malls?
Artgasm: This Weekend's Art Openings, September 17 - 19, 2010
By Courtney Schilling
World's Ugliest "Woman" Robs St. Louis Bank
Belleville Police Face Lawsuit Over Homeless Woman Who Died in Jail
Analyzing the Good, Bad and Ugly of Rams Opener
Scott Schwartz: Attacks Dumpster Divers with "Ninja" Sword
VIDEO: Jon Hamm Knows His St. Louis Blues Hockey
Surprise! Missouri's K2 Ban is Completely Ineffective
Amazing Facts & Beyond: Animal Art
By Ronald Weaver
Belligerent Piano: Episode Twenty-Nine
By Timothy Lane
Ask a Mexican! Hombres at Work: Can employers regulate what language is spoken in the break room?
The Cover of the September 16 Print Edition
Black Spade Bonus Coverage: A Mea Culpa and Some Sweet, Sweet Music
Review + Setlist: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Orgone Find the Soul Sweet Spot at the Pageant, September 19
By Annie Zaleski
Show Review + Setlists: Best Coast and Male Bonding at the Gargoyle, September 14
By Mike Appelstein
Male Bonding Apparently Kicked Out After Its St. Louis Gargoyle Show -- For Drinking
David Lowery's Aural History of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven
By Ian Froeb
Sleepy Kitty Celebrates the Flaming Lips Show With a Zaireeka Pre-Party and Halo Bar After-Party
By Chrissy Wilmes
An Under Cover Weekend Night Three: Theodore + The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra, Fractured Army, Makeshift Gentlemen, The Dive Poets, Via Dove
By Bob Mcmahon
Watch and Enjoy: An Insane Treasure Trove of Rare Flaming Lips Videos
Review: Devin the Dude, The FuFops, CKDK and Bren Suarez at Pop's, Friday, September 17
By Calvin Cox
Contest! Win Hooray for Earth Vinyl and Tickets to the Band's Show!
Clownvis Presley Covers the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris"
Win Tickets to the Johnnie's Jam: A Tribute to Johnnie Johnson!
Photos: KSHE's First-Annual Pig Roast, starring Tesla, Queensryche, Jackyl, Candlebox -- And a Hall of Fame Hip-Hop Icon?
Last Collector Standing: Sleepy Kitty's Paige Brubeck and Evan Sult on Art, Vinyl and Budgie
By Jon Scorfina
STL Loud Pumps Up the Volume
Clownvis returns to America's Got Talent as a Finale "All Star" [Goo Goo Dolls Update]
Why Did Owen Cancel Last Night's Cicero's Show?
Beat 'N' Soul Garage Fest Debuts at Off Broadway in November
Show Announcements: Week of September 16
By Diana Benanti
Review: Johnnie's Jam, Featuring Dona Oxford and Conan O'Brien's musicians, at the Sheldon, Sunday, September 19
Review + Setlist + Photos: The Flaming Lips and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Energize and Illuminate the Pageant, Friday, September 17
So, Really, How About That Ariel Pink Vintage Vinyl Performance...
New Release Highlights for September 14: The Return of the Vaselines and Azure Ray
Clownvis Presley Speaks! The King of Clowns on America's Got Talent, Winning Over the Goo Goo Dolls and His Next National TV Appearance
Iron & Wine Coming to the Pageant
PLAY:stl Fest Kicks Off Tomorrow Night at Cicero's
Ozzy Osbourne and Halford Coming to Scottrade Center in December
Twelve Things To Do This Weekend: September 17-19
Van Dyke Parks Approves of Theodore and the Rats & People Motion Picture Orchestra's An Under Cover Weekend Set.
Stan Chisholm sweats music and bleeds art. Won't you join him?
Dead Confederate finds its sweet spot with a new album, Sugar
By Shae Moseley
An Under Cover Weekend concludes with a rock & roll bang
By Christian Schaeffer
Posing Nude
Posing Nude (Heavy Hydrogen Records)
Blue Giant
9 p.m. Friday, September 17. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Roy Kasten
Devin the Dude
7 p.m. Friday, September 17. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
Cast Spells
10:40 p.m. Saturday, September 18. The Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar Boulevard.
By Ryan Wasoba
Samantha Crain
11 p.m. Saturday, September 18. Riddle's Penultimate Café & Wine Bar, 6307 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
8 p.m. Sunday, September 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Michael Alan Goldberg
The Felice Brothers
8 p.m. Monday, September 20. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.
Jukebox The Ghost/Hooray For Earth/Via Audio
8 p.m. Tuesday, September 21. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
Prefuse 73
9 p.m. Wednesday, September 22. The Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.
By Dan LeRoy
AM Taxi
8 p.m. Wednesday, September 22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Scott Heisel
Interview: Male Bonding's Kevin Hendrick
Patience Is Rewarded at Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium
Bistro 1130 Opens in Town and Country This Evening
This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated
Video: Man Sets Oyster-Eating Record (A Gut Check Public Service Announcement)
Corpses Aren't Lovin' It in Anti-McDonald's Ads
By Robin Wheeler
Another Day, Another Meat Dress
Food Safety Legislation Stalls in U.S., Turns Violent in China
St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 9.13-9.19
Flamingo Bowl Bartender Katie Gwaltney Mixes...A Spiced Chocolate Martini!
By Alissa Nelson
#53: Oxtail Stew at De Palm Tree
IHOP Sues a Kansas City Church Over Same Acronym
Organization Sues to Get Bluefin Tuna Endangered Species Protection
Pappy's Smokehouse vs. 17th Street Bar & Grill on Food Network
This Week's Tip of the Tongue Newsletter
#54: Pho at Pho Long
#55: Gyro at Anthonino's Taverna
Gut Check's Week in Tweets
Fountain on Locust Flush With Best Restroom Victory
Flamingo Bowl's Katie Gwaltney: Featured Bartender of the Week
Review + Slideshow: Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium
Death's Door White Whiskey, the Wine Merchant
By Alicia Lohmar
Lady Gaga's Meat Dress Draws Scorn of PETA, Butchers
Doughnut Leave Krispy Kreme Without Your Flu Shot
Ten Animal Parts You Probably Didn't Know Were Food
Seafood City Supermarket Opens New Location
Play With Your Food This Sunday
Photos: The U's "Eat a Graduate" Contest
Medical Marijuana Users Get Ice Cream
Review Preview: Copia Urban Winery
Joaquin Phoenix implodes to prove a point in I'm Still Here
By Karina Longworth
Becoming a couple, squirmy moment by squirmy moment, in Everyone Else
By J. Hoberman
Ben Affleck caught between redemption and action in The Town
David Boesch: Flowering Frost
Back To The Grind
By Mark Fischer
What's Italian for Party?
By Nicole Beckert
All Eyes on Allen
By Alison Sieloff
Three Thoughts
By Paul Friswold
It's Coming From Inside the Gallery
Legends of Flight
Gibson Guy
Hop on Over
A Howling Good Time
By Ms. Day
Dine, Dance, Digest
The Great Forest Park Balloon Race
Being the True History of the Founding of the Forest Park Balloon Race by the Villain Ozymandias Hare and the Heroic Aeronaut Etienne Montgolfier
And Then Along Comes Franzen
Student Film Exposed
The Revenge of Project Comic Con
Diva Is An Understatement
BODIES Exhibit at Galleria Will Come with Warning Tag
Art Museum Receives Gift of Native American Artifacts
Shrek the Musical is all that and a farting contest
By Dennis Brown
The Rep's You Can't Take It With You will make you want to take it with you
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene
By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold
St. Louis Art Capsules
St. Louis Art Capsules Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene
By Jessica Baran